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The CIA is facing an investigation into whether it spied on senators’ aides
who were scrutinising the intelligence agency’s methods of dealing with
terror suspects. Employees from the agency are accused of accessing
computers used by aides to the Senate’s intelligence committee during its
inquiry into the CIA’s activities during the Bush Administration’s “war
against terrorism”.

An inquiry is under way after members of Congress complained about the alleged
CIA snooping, but in an indication of the extent of a breakdown in trust
between the agency and legislators, it is believed the CIA started looking
into the committee after it